Dutch Growers celebrates 70th anniversary in Saskatoon | 24CA News
It was 70 years in the past a pair from the Netherlands packed up their baggage and got here to Saskatoon in hopes of a brighter future.
It was right here they started the household business, Dutch Growers.
Three generations later, the greenhouse stays some of the common spots within the metropolis.
“With only a suitcase, a hat and $20 in their pocket basically, they just started from scratch and built up the company,” Dutch Growers proprietor Rick Van Duyvendyk mentioned about his mother and father.
Just as Rick as soon as labored together with his household on the business, his daughter Nikki Van Duyvendyk additionally works on working the business — one thing she at all times dreamed of rising up.
“This is what I always hoped I could do,” Nikki defined. “I’m just very proud that my grandparents came here with nothing, they started with a field and now we have a place that our whole family can work at.”
The household now has one other location in Regina, one thing they by no means anticipated would occur seven a long time in the past.
“Our team is amazing… It is truly wonderful and I am very grateful to be part of a family business,” Nikki mentioned.
One approach the household is commemorating the anniversary is by displaying the household’s first automotive that they ever owned in Canada.
“They used it for everything from working in the fields, to landscaping, to going to church to getting their groceries, it was their one vehicle and I hung onto it and I restored it,” Rick mentioned.
Rick and Nikki are excited to have fun 70 years of working a household business, however they know there’s many extra anniversaries to return.
“Without the people of Saskatchewan supporting local businesses like ours we could never be a success like we are.”
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